Timeline full of pensioners complaining their £250 per week isn't enough and needs the triple lock. Meanwhile my son was getting his £78 per week UC docked because he still had some birthday savings - while he was battling the collapsed youth employment market.

This is a very disappointing response that does little to help the millions of students already struggling with student loans! My view on the govt's reponse today to the Treasury Committee student loan report... --------------- This is a very disappointing response that does little to help the millions of students already struggling with student loans, after years of degradation of the terms they signed up to, by successive governments. Most urgently, it doesn’t address the coming immoral freeze of the Plan 2 repayment threshold, announced by Rachel Reeves, due to start next April. That will mean all those on Plan 2 loans will effectively pay more each year. I say it’s immoral because it is a negative retrospective change of terms to loan contracts students, often aged 18, signed up to. No commercial firm would ever be allowed to do that. The only slim hope is that as the freeze was announced in a Budget, it has to be undone in a Budget and therefore they are just waiting for the coming one to do that. At the same time, the Government has sadly rejected the Committee’s recommendation that the ‘fairness’ protections that holders of commercial loans get should apply to student loans too - perhaps as it knows some of the ways it behaves would fall foul of those conditions. Most frustrating is that back in 2015, I campaigned for this change, and even worked with current Cabinet Minister, Wes Streeting, then a backbencher, to put an amendment in Parliament (it failed). So, it is incredibly frustrating to see a government he is now a part of reject it. The Government has also rejected shifting the inflation link from RPI to CPI - continuing the unfair pattern that means when the Government raises our costs by inflation it’s often via the higher RPI, but on things where it pays out it’s often linked to the lower CPI measure. Of course, I welcome the small crumbs it has given that at least future students will be told in plain English, before they sign up, that the amount they repay can be altered after the event. But let’s be clear: better information for future students will not fix the existing Plan 2 student loan crisis. The repayment threshold needs to rise, interest needs to fall, maintenance support needs uprating, and the whole system requires a fundamental reset.

Hi @OctopusEnergy - your balance forecasting tool shows my current payment will keep me slightly above zero throughout the winter. So why is it recommending an increase so that the minimum balance is £150ish?

There's this and then there's whatever generic dross @CastoreEngland vomit out for us at Bath -@BathBytes oh for a bit of this creativity in our shirts.

Looks like Bath Rugby are after a Finance Director again - feels like the third time in a few years. Curious but not sure whether it's a job that would spoil the fan experience if you got it.

I have questions @metoffice - headline temperature 38C, highest spot temp 36C, highest feels like 35C. In what way does 38C fairly summarise the day in temperature terms. (Looking at tomorrow in case that's not obvious from colours)

Meanwhile, as we're wanting kids off social media and doing more wholesome stuff instead........

Ugh Bath Green Park @sainsburys is a total nightmare. Whoever decided that refitting it over months rather than shutting for a week and doing it quickly needs to be redeployed to litter picking in the car park. Swear they're just moving stuff around to wind people up!

Finally found a use for the new GB Rail colour scheme #GBrail

FFS O'Warburton it's just Donoghue.

Why are we unable to specify a project and get it built for an agreed price and timetable rather than the risk absorbing mess that is HS2 #HS2

Not sure what @sainsburys are doing to Bath Green Park but they need to get a move on because at the moment its a horrible experience. Those new fridge units are dingy and half the freezer section was unstocked. Might start stopping off at Asda on way home from work!

Bristol obviously fielding their marketing team tonight at Northampton

Anyone who thinks Bath head of rugby Johann van Graan was a bad loser on Sunday needs to take the time to read this to get the full picture of a super classy operator somersetlive.co.uk/sport/oth…

I guess Kanye West is due another name change - from Ye to Nah.

Finally negotiated the nightmare of getting @rugbyontnt set up in yet another new app. Now going to have to go and do this for elderly parents who can't cope with all this streaming app shifting. Move around more often than @sainsburys store layouts and about as welcome.

Who's stupid idea was this shirt pairing - it's really hard to see them apart #FRAvENG